ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,197, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Authorization revocation for unmanned aerial vehicles" was invented by Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar (Singapore), Vijay Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.), Krisztian Kiss (Hayward, Calif.), Jordi Agud Ruiz (Meguro-ku, Japan), Mohammed Sadique (Parramatta, Australia), Cahya A. Masputra (San Jose, Calif.), Srinivasan Nimmala (San Jose, Calif.) and Longda Xing (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing authorization revocation for unmanned aerial vehicles. A cellular network element of a cellular network may receive...